Historian & professor @Ohio State.
Books on Eastern Europe & the Balkans: nationalism, migration, borderlands, Cold War culture. Current work on post-1918 divided families & displaced children.
2025 ACLS Fellow.
Theodora Dragostinova
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Grateful for the opportunity, humbled by the quality of work out there, and energized to promote humanist perspectives on the world when we most need them!
The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”
Europe makes me proud.
This is not just rhetoric, there are moments that really bring folks together, and this is one of them.
When I teach the Cold War, I do an exercise: I give my students a variety of primary sources and ask them, what was the point of no return?
This episode will be on future syllabi, a prime example of a point of no return in the unraveling of America’s position in the global order.
Ivan Krastev on how Europe should respond to the trumpian revolution, an appealing analysis—let’s see who the counterrevolutionaries are!
www.ft.com/content/3507...
“You don’t hold the cards,” says Trump. To which Zelensky responds, “We are not playing cards.”
Nothing else to add, just what happens when bullies play war, call it peace, and want to make “deals” on the side.
@cornellupress.bsky.social, I am game, let’s play #StackandSave. Just a quick selection from my home office for the #BookSky challenge—so many wonderful books to choose from!
Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals.
Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Winston Churchill visiting the White House in 1942. Not wearing a suit. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦
“A correspondent for Tass, the Russian state-owned news agency, briefly gained access to the Oval Office of the White House on Friday… even as Reuters and the Associated Press were barred from entering the room.”
What else do you need to know?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
